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"Mutant X". The two songs featured in this story "I Miss My Friend" is by Darryl Worley and "Lets Be Us Again" is by Lonestar.
Chapter One
It was a bone chilling August day at Sanctuary. A blanket of dark storm clouds covered the sky. Booms of thunder became the agonizing cries of the clouds as the pressure of rain threatened to burst free. The angry wind howled as it blew over the ocean stirring up deadly waves that crashed upon the rocks of the mountain. Yes, a huge storm threaten to release it's furry on the quite Sanctuary. And its cold winter-like weather was making everyone dead tired. It was like a magic spell was placed over the four Mutants. Brennan had been in his room reading for most of the day, Lexa was in Adam's old office doing resource on her next personal mission. Shalimar just laid around doing nothing or slept, while Jesse was on the computer doing some simple work.
However around mid-afternoon the storm was set free with its hell and furry. With the sound of the rain beating down on the mountain and the wind and waves making their mighty roars, made it seem even colder then it actually was. Shalimar awoke by the storms howl and a smile broke on her face. She emerged from her room and made her way over to the computers were Jesse was. She sat down across from him, watching him work for awhile before she started to talk.
"Hey Jess, you ready?"
"Yeah, just give me a minute." He said as he started to type furiously on the keyboard, as he started to wrap up his work.
"I'll go get the food and you'll get the blankets and the movies?" Shalimar asked as she started to get up.
"Sure thing." Jesse replied.
It only took a few moments for Jesse and Shalimar to become curled on the couch, wrapped in layers of warm blankets watching the first movie on their list. With a big bowl of extra buttery popcorn in between them and a mixture of beer and sodas in arms reach, the two blonde mutants sat back in the over sized couch and enjoyed countless hours of movies. Brennan wondered into the lounge, hopping to watch some sports on the huge plasma screen, but when he saw the two sitting there watching movies, he doubled timed it out of the room. He managed to get within three feet of the room when he bumped into Lexa.
"Watch where you going." She said a bit frustrated.
"Sorry Lex." Brennan said very sincerely.
"Do you know where Shal and Jess are?" Lexa asked with the same tone.
"Um they're in the lounge watching movies." Lexa looked at Brennan wondering why he became so nerves, was the only way she could put it. Just shrugging it off she started her way to the room however when Brennan realized what she was doing, he grabbed her arm.
"What are you doing?"
"I'm going to join them."
"You can't."
"And why not?"
"Because, every time it rains like this the two of them watch movies."
"So that doesn't give them ownership of the lounge. I live here and I have the right to go and watch movies if I want to."
'Of course she doesn't understand.' Brennan thought, so taking a deep breath, Brennan began to tell her.
"When Emma and I first came here, we really did not understand that whole bond between them. One night, when it was like this, we came, sat down and started to eat popcorn, enjoying the movie. Shalimar started to go off on us, and even Jesse made the biggest deal out of it. Adam came and told us that ever since they became friend, they did this and it was-is only between them. We always respected it no questions asked."
"Okay." Lexa said a bit confused "So…what did you and Emma do? Just sit around and count flowers on the wall?"
"No, we would go out or make dinner or do whatever and just talked."
Lexa sensed the sadness when he talked. She remembered reading that Emma and himself joined Mutant X on the same day, so she new that there had to be a bond between them. "So…do you want to do that, or go off and do our own thing?"
"We can do option one." He said with a tiny smile, as they walked to the kitchen.